Brembo and BMW working on offering carbon ceramic brake options for M models including the F10 M5 and F12 M6

Brembo and BMW working on offering carbon ceramic brake options for M models including the F10 M5 and F12 M6

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Brembo and BMW working on offering carbon ceramic brake options for M models including the F10 M5 and F12 M6

This information comes from Bimmerfile who was able to confirm with a member of BMW's board of directors, Dr. Hubert Diess, that carbon ceramic braking options are coming. BMW is working with Brembo who will be producing the discs and likely the rotors as well. We hope the carbon discs and rotors are from Brembo as one looking for an upgrade for the traditionally weak BMW brakes tends to go to aftermarket Brembo big brake setups anyway.

This will mean that for the first time a BMW or M car will have a carbon ceramic braking options. How much will they run? Well, these brakes are not cheap and on makes that offer them the price is usually well over $10k. Maybe with a greater production number and being available on the M5, M6, and likely future M models as well the price will be driven down. This brake package is about a year away but has a chance of debuting with the sale of the F10 M5 in the USA.

Mine are the Carbon Ceramic disks and 8pot Brembo calipers from the McLaren SLR (used on a wide range of other high end cars). They are not drilled though, they are Generation 1 but more than enough for my car which is about 1350-1400kg.

Aparently they are about 1500Kw worth of stopping power.

Other cars using the same setup are for example Mercedes, Audi and early Ferraris. The rotors are 370x38mm, and huge 8 piston calipers. They never fade and they also weigh a lot less than the metal rotors.

a problem with carbon ceramic rotors is you need to heat them up to get them going. if you plan on tracking/hot-lapping the hunk of an m5 around sure, the carbon pads will do very nicely. however if you're the m5 owner who likes to run on the street and then all of a sudden need to brake hard for someone stopping short, or a red light or something, if the brakes are not warm already you actually have less stopping power than a metallic rotor afaik, and unfortunately you maybe used to serious stopping power because last time they were warm/hot and this time... oops, bang. the only car i'd put carbon ceramics on is a dedicated track car. or a street-race car like a high end Ferrari or something that is used almost solely for track use.